"Lined In Lead" Opening night~

"Babel", glazed graphite on paper, 7 x 12

"Memories", glazed graphite on paper, 6.5 x 7


The artists in attendance: Barron Storey, Joao Ruas, Rod Luff, Michael Zulli, me and Andrew Hem.


What a whirlwind weekend! It was great meeting new people, seeing old friends and colleagues,and be a part of an amazing show~! Thanks so much to R of Eidolon Fine Arts for the beautiful, beautiful frames, and putting all this together~

Lined In Lead: Works in Graphite

With the crazy news happening all this week, I completely forgot posting about the art show i am participating in tomorrow(!):






Lined in Lead: Works in Graphite
March 19, 2011 - April 11, 2011
Opening Reception / Mar 19, 7:00PM - 10:00PM

Gallery Nucleus
210 East Main St, Alhambra CA 91801

I will be there starting from 7 pm for my sketchbook signing. Hope to see you there! Also, there's an Art for Japan fund-raising exibition in April at the same gallery(Link), which i would love to do my part~!

Best,
Shelly Wan

Artist Help Japan~

The news have been grim these days and my heart is filled with sorrow for the Japanese people. Dice Tsutsumi, my art director at Pixar Animation Studios who was also behind 2008 Totoro Forest Project to help preserve Sayama Forest in Japan and Sketchtravel Project, has set up this Emergency Earthquake & Tsunami Fund:


http://artistshelpjapan.blogspot.com/

He's also talking about an Art Auction for releif as well, which i am eager to be a part of. So stay tuned!

Be safe and give to the unfortunate,
Shelly Wan

Art Blocks for Ghana LA Charity Auction March 12~!

Hi Everybody,

So the time has come for the Art Blocks auction to take place in Los Angeles~! It's an honor to be included in the show and I have my eyes on some of the pieces too~ Exciting!

March 12th 2011, 7pm-11pm
Gallery Nucleus Event and Launch of the Online Auction.




Please help spread the word~!

TWITTER (follow and mention Art Blocks)
@pbpfoundation

FACEBOOK (photos, updates and information) invite friends to "like" the page
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Art-Blocks-For-Ghana/166672736692656

TO BUY TICKETS
http://artblocksla.eventbrite.com/

Auction Link
http://donations.ebay.com/charity/charity.jsp?NP_ID=43741

BLOG
www.artblockghana.blogspot.com

WEBSITE
http://www.picturebookproject.com/PBP/artblocks.html

Best best,
Shelly

A little break from the norm~

I had a nice two week vacation during Chinese New Year to visit my family in China and a bit of traveling in Dubai~ Egypt was where we wanted to go, but it wasn't meant to be at the time. It's the fist time i had an ipod touch with me while traveling, and I gotta say i don't know how i lived without it before...! All these amazing apps for shooting pictures and videos~! it's so fun.

The gas in Dubai was half as much as bottled water. Imagine my shock when i see the prices back in the States!

PREVIEW: Group Pencil Show at Gallery Nucleus in March~!

Hi Everybody,

Happy New Year(a bit late)! I hoped everyone had a great time relaxing...? i am back in work mode, and trying to produce some decent enough pieces for a pencil show i am participating in:

Lined in Lead
March 19, 2011 - April 11, 2011
Opening Reception / Mar 19, 7:00PM - 11:00PM

Here's a preview piece, "Memories":



Best best~
Shell

Happy Holidays!

Greetings~ I hope everyone had a great year 2010!! :D

Best wishes for the new year~
shell

CTN EXPO NOV 19 -20~!

What's the one place to meet and learn from Moebius, Peter de Seve, Tadahiro Uesugi, and many many many of the most celebrated animation artists working today, and possibly show off your portfolio to the animation companies you ask...? Well, at the CTN Animation Expo in Burbank of course!! ;D I am going to be there all three days, and i am very excited about the talks and demos i am going to see~!!! Quite a lot of Pixar artists are going just for fun, I will have my work exhibited along with John Watkiss's at Eidolon Fine Arts booth. i can't wait to see you all there~! Register now as my guest and save 10% on any 1-day or 3-day general pass by using this discount EIFIARX10. :D

http://www.regonline.com/CTNX2010

Best wishes,
Shelly

p.s. i recently had my cousin over for a weekend. she's a clinical pharmacist who started working about two years ago. Talking with her make me realize(again) just how lucky i am, being able to do what i love at work. Having the best bosses(Dice and Robert) doesn't hurt either. ^0^ I hope all of your jobs make you content and happy as well~

Alex Kanevsky show pics

I was fortunate enough to catch the Alex Kanevsky show at the Dolby Chadwick Gallery last week, before it closed. The work speaks for itself, and i am very much inspired!! :D

Scott Burdick's slide presentation "The Banishment of Beauty"

Tho some of the slides presented differ from my ideas of beauty, I think this representation is important viewing/listening for anyone who has the urge to create meaningful, beautiful things. I am especially drawn to the title "Aesthetic Underground".

Ghana project~

Hi everybody~ Here's something i did outside of work, for a charity auction raising money for building an orphans' home in Ghana,Africa. You could read more about it here:

http://artblocksghana.blogspot.com/





Best best,
Shelly

AMAZING Russian Artist~

I found this wonderful, wonderful work blog-hopping some weeks back! It's so hauntingly graceful/sophisticated that i just had to share with you!

To see more of these work(MANY pages of them!!) go here.

Best Best,
Shelly

P.S. If anyone knew how to read Russian, would you mind shedding some light on how to get in touch with this wonderful artist...? I would LOVE to buy a piece from him!

UPDATE: Big Thanks to all those who helped!! Found his Livejournal page and phone~

New painting

Trying to get back into figure painting too~ :D

Landscapes~

Warming up to watercolor landscapes again~ Here are some paintings done early weekday mornings, in and around Berkeley~ :D It's really overcast here, everyday... You should check out Dice's done in oil: They are amazing~

Btw: You can now purchase my sketchbook here on the blog~ ^0^

Best best,
shell

Birthday post~

Sorry about the lack of updates!! I was so busy the two days at Con, i forgot to use my camera to capture some images~ X____X and I am moving to the SF Bay area plus family visit happening next week~ So, sorry it's just a lame picture of me on my birthday morning~ :P

Good news to share with you:

I am officially working at Pixar as a sketch artist~! :D I am very fortunate to have gotten the position, and couldn't be happier.

R of Eidolon Fine Arts is working hard on the web store of the website. My sketchbooks/prints/postcards should be available for purchase from there and on this blog shortly.

I will be living in Berkeley, CA in the near future~! If you were in the area and interested in getting together and paint, give me a shout~ Or if you knew some amazing little art/book stores in the area, i would love to know about them too~ :D

Best wishes,
Shell

UPDATE with map & Preview: San Diego Comic Con 2010!!

Uh Oh~ it's that time of the year again: Comic Con SD!! :D I will be there with Eidolon Fine Arts, booth 4504, in the Illustrators section.

I will be unveiling a NEW sketchbook($12) - along with the previously mentioned Magic sketchbook - this year. It shows many previously unpublished art and also some of my processes and thinking behind them. 

I will also have 9 new postcards available, including the covers of Liquid City 1 & 2, as well as prints and Magic cards.

All in all: I am super excited, and can't wait to be there! Please come by and say hi~

Shell

Signing in Boston Sat 07.10.10

Hi everybody~

I will be appearing in Boston in conjunction with Your Move Games on July 10 for the Magic 2011 Prerelease.

Event details here: Your Move Games Magic 2011 Prerelease
Charlestown Knights of Columbus Hall
75 West School St Charlestown, MA 02129

I will be signing cards and will have Magic Artist’s Proofs and originals available for sale as well. Also available, in very limited quantities, will be my Magic sketchbook, featuring an in-depth look at the process behind my cards. :)

Hope to see you there!

First Look: Liquid City 2

LIQUID CITY, VOL. 2, a 312-page full-color trade paperback from Image Comics, will be on sale for $29.99 on September 29, 2010.

I had the good fortune to be involved in painting the cover for the second issue of "Liquid City". Thanks Sonny~ You are amazing!

For the second cover, i decided early on this should be a more innocent and cheerful piece, to contrast with the first~ I don't think that completely worked tho~ :S

You could read more about this here and here.

Best best,
Shell

EARTH: Fragile Planet Opening Reception tonight

Opening Reception TONIGHT! Friday, June 4th, 2010 at 6pm. The Matricide piece i did will be up for viewing. Kindly stop by if you had a chance~ ^___^






From Society of Illustrators:

Featuring over 100 powerful works from the world's foremost illustrators addressing the current environmental issues that we face today. With statements and graphics provided by National Geographic and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Organic wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served, cash bar with themed drinks will be open until midnight

EARTH: Fragile Planet is made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

The Society would like to thank the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York for their generous support.

Wip 2

Thanks for ALL of your help...! I think it's more on its right track now. ^0^ Tho i havn't got to the birds yet~

Best,
Shelly